Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Doctor Detroit / Universal ; a Black Rhino-Brillstein Company production ; screenplay by Carl Gottlieb, Robert Boris, and Bruce Jay Friedman ; story by Bruce Jay Friedman ; produced by Robert K. Weiss ; directed by Michael Pressman.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Clifford Skridlow is a teacher at a small Chicago college run by his father. A pimp cons Clifford into managing his four prostitutes, then skips town to escape the mob boss known as Mom. Clifford decides to draw on his course on medieval literature in his quest to save the women from Mom.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Subjects:

College teachers -- Drama.

Pimps -- Drama.

Prostitutes -- Drama.

Chicago (Ill.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Comedy films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Gottlieb, Carl, screenwriter.

Boris, Robert, 1945- screenwriter.

Friedman, Bruce Jay, 1930-2020 screenwriter.

Weiss, Robert K., film producer.

Pressman, Michael, film director.

Aykroyd, Dan, actor.

Hesseman, Howard, actor.

Furth, George, 1932-2008, actor.

Duggan, Andrew, 1923-1988, actor.

Carter, T. K., 1956- actor.

Dixon, Donna, 1957- actor.

Drescher, Fran, actor.

Murtagh, Kate, 1920- actor.

Baggot, King, 1943- cinematographer.

Schifrin, Lalo, composer (expression)

Universal Pictures (Firm)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.

Director of photography, King Baggot ; editor, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Lalo Schifrin ; featured musical performance, James Brown ; costume designer, Betsy Cox ; production designer, Lawrence G. Paull.

Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, George Furth, Andrew Duggan, T.K. Carter, Nan Martin, Donna Dixon, Fran Drescher, Lydia Lei, Lynn Whitfield, Kate Murtagh.

DVD.

DVD, NTSC Region 1, anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio), Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, single layer, single-sided.

English soundtrack; optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

ISBN:

141700245X

9781417002450

9781417002450 : DVD

141700245X : DVD

Publisher Number:

24915

Other Number:

61251184

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

722777

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Doctor D